Quote from: Semiopathy on February 08, 2012, 12:51:42 PM
The next book on my list is Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

A friend of mine has been telling me about that book. I'm not sure if he' read it yet, but it sounded intriguing. We both have been trying to make it through Albert Camus's works before going off on another philosophy haha.

I like history.

I just finished Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.

It is about the dark horse nomination, election, and assassination of James Garfield.

The book demonstrates that the doctors who refused to use antiseptic procedures really killed President Garfield, rather than the nutcase who shot him. (And how Alexander Graham Bell nearly saved Garfield's life.)

Quote from: Beverley on February 12, 2012, 04:22:24 AM
I find French Philosophers write really, really good paperweights. Or insomnia cures.....    I much prefer anything to do with cosmology, quantum physics or non-linear mathematics.

Beverley

Quantum physics can be very stimulating - in the right company, of course.

Quote from: Beverley on February 12, 2012, 04:22:24 AM
I find French Philosophers write really, really good paperweights. Or insomnia cures.....    I much prefer anything to do with cosmology, quantum physics or non-linear mathematics.

Beverley

Camus makes me feel safe and good when I'm tired and feeling ungrounded.

Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom [NOOK Book by Ron Paul]

AND

The Constitution of the United States of America; The Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation (Extra: The Constitutional Dictionary) [NOOK Book by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention, Second Continental Congress]

Two of the most important books that still affect our lives, OUR FUTURE today ! American Democracy has slowly degenerated into one of the worst form of despotism possible: the tyranny of the "alleged masses", so-called "popular opinion" ! Due to fear, complacency and neglect we, like a sheep and two wolves deciding "what's for dinner", are actually giving our FREEDOMS & RIGHTS away !



VOTE RON PAUL for President 2012 !

Quote from: {the preamble}We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance . . .

Your lives maybe... Alice in Wonderland, the limericks of Edward Lear and Johnson's Rambler essays have had more impact on my life than those.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 15, 2012, 11:41:01 AM
Your lives maybe...

Pica, your "Fem Labor govt" doesn't even really associate itself with "working men" anymore, does it?

How's the tour, restaurant business doing? Can I we still come visit? (getting kids Passports)

And given the dull milquetoast running it at the moment, will not be in again.

Anyway, I was talking literature, not politics. I well written chapter in a book has made far more impact on my life than a hundred canting politicians.

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Who knew gothic literature (the real gothic genre, not the emo-only kind) would have so much homosexuality hidden in it

Dog Soldiers. It's been on the shelf but I didn't know what it was for awhile because it didn't have a cover. I'm scrounging, literature-wise. I need to go pay the library for the books we lost, and get them to change my name, and get a new card because mine's bar code is worn off. Then I'll get something by Haruki Murakami, and afterward something by Sarah Vowell. I like her.

I am about halfway through Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark Levin.

If you are not into political science and the philosophical roots of the Founding Generation, then this book is not for you.

I've got three started right now, Cloud Atlas, The Night Land, and the Wizard of Earthsea...

I'm concentrating on The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin right now. It's the first in a trilogy about a young boy named Ged with a knack for wizardry and magic, as the title may suggest... It's solid fantasy, with a lot of environmental and humanistic themes, like much of LeGuin's writing. I'm really enjoying it.

right this minute I'm watching the second last episode of Sarah Connor Chronicles
bookwise I'm half way through, Tana French - In The Woods
I'll probably continue on with the next in the series of 3, but I'll just chip away at it and read one of these as well
On my kobo:

I got my fines paid. Close to sixty dollars, which is why I'd been putting it off since sometime last year. One book got left at the hospital when my daughter was having some issues, and one I found at the bottom of her backpack along with an open container of juice. Lol. I still think we've done pretty well, considering. 13 years of library use as a family and only two books I've had to pay to replace.

I put a hold on Murakami's first book so I get dibs when a copy gets returned and I got a book about sexuality in early America to read in the meantime. It's really neat.

Quote from: Maya Zimmerman on March 12, 2012, 02:15:17 AM
Yay!  I actually had to look up what Murakami's first novel was.  I've only known of his novels when they've debuted starting with Kafka on the Shore, so I have no clue what order the older stuff is in.  Hear the Wind Sing, eh?  I've never read it (or seen it in a book store; that and Pinball, 1973 are completely unfamiliar to me), but I'm sure it'll be great!

Ooh hey no I was wrong. What I reserved is apparently his third - A Wild Sheep Chase. I was just going on hearsay. Now I'm curious. There are a few that my county library doesn't have, but the author is well-respected enough that I bet they'd be willing to get them. Thanks Maya.

Uni Texts mainly, "Integrated Principles of Zoology" by Hickman et al which is keeping the inner nerdette happy;  History text "The pursuit of Glory, Europe 1648-1825" by Tim Blanning, not as bad as it sounds;
lots of selected readings;
and for a bit of relief, "Murder in the Dark", one of the Phryne Fisher murder mysteries by Kerry Greenwood.  Adventures of a Bohemian woman detective, set in 1920's Melbourne and very much in the lighter style of P.G.Woodhouse.

Karen. 

Before I tried to go through the (digital) card catalog, I looked for a Murakami book on the shelf. I realized then that I haven't checked out or even looked for any fiction at a public library in more than five years, and I had zero familiarity with that part of the local library system. I do know the rest of it like the back of my hand. I read novels, but I guess I get most of them from friends and free bins.

Veritas by Anne Laughlin.  It's the first romance-mystery novel I've ever read that wasn't a Harlequin Romance.  It's actually very good and it's a lesbian romance so I'm thoroughly enjoying reading something like this that isn't filled with smut and actually shows the girls have character.

I'm also read Wicca:  A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham.

"the rise & fall of a yummy mummy" by Polly Williams, and I just love it.

It give a great insight into motherhood and all it's issues but in a very funny and down to earth way.

Axelle

Quote from: Felix on March 12, 2012, 05:08:27 AM
Ooh hey no I was wrong. What I reserved is apparently his third - A Wild Sheep Chase. I was just going on hearsay. Now I'm curious. There are a few that my county library doesn't have, but the author is well-respected enough that I bet they'd be willing to get them. Thanks Maya.

Hey, I'm actually just now reading A Wild Sheep Chase!  It was my introduction to Murakami, as it was the book on my uncle's coffee table, but I haven't read it through yet.  Did you manage to get it checked out?